{"id":4692,"date":"2015-01-14T23:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2015\/01\/14\/15-doable-ways-to-strengthen-your-team-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2015-01-14T23:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T23:17:31","slug":"15-doable-ways-to-strengthen-your-team-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/15-doable-ways-to-strengthen-your-team-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Doable Ways to Strengthen Your Team in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Too many strategies for building a great team require books, consultants, or conferences. Instead of all the time, talk, and travel required by these traditional (and expensive) avenues, consider a new approach—just do something<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n

The following list of 15 relatively simple ideas requires little effort to initiate and even less effort to explain. Give them a fair shot, though, and your team will grow stronger within a year—maybe faster.<\/p>\n\n

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  1. Create and follow a team meeting agenda to keep your time productive, moving, and shorter than last year’s meetings.<\/li>\n\n
  2. Call special meetings for longer discussions about specific topics, rather than hijacking the fast-paced short team meetings.<\/li>\n\n
  3. Periodically forget the scheduled meeting and go to lunch together. Or breakfast.<\/li>\n\n
  4. Clarify and write out a list of accountabilities for each person; distribute to the team and throughout the organization. Keep them to five or fewer per person.<\/li>\n\n
  5. Discover the key language of appreciation for each team member (see Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace<\/em> by Chapman & White). Agree as a team to personally express appreciation for one another, and periodically discuss progress.<\/li>\n \n
  6. Celebrate often and in a timely manner. You can tell what’s important to a team or organization by what they celebrate.<\/li>\n \n
  7. To fully embrace #6, make everyone’s birthday a big celebration.<\/li>\n\n
  8. Assign one person the accountability (see #4) for scheduling celebrations.<\/li>\n\n
  9. Schedule team retreats that include unusually high amounts of get-to-know-you-better times. Plan no formal agendas over meals. And don’t, for even a moment, feel guilty about not “accomplishing enough.”<\/li>\n\n
  10. Send notes to team members’ spouses to brag about their loved one’s accomplishments.<\/li>\n\n
  11. Ask team members to attend and present at board, elder, or leadership team meetings.<\/li>\n\n
  12. Ensure each team member identifies and pursues at least one personal growth area that is not a skill.<\/li>\n\n
  13. Establish an aggressive budget for personal and professional growth materials and experiences.<\/li>\n\n
  14. Insist that everyone on the team (including you) take all vacation days to which they’re entitled.<\/li>\n \n
  15. Share your own growth plan; develop one worthy of sharing if you haven’t already. Be smart and don’t include an item called “try new ideas to strengthen the team.”<\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n

    David Staal, senior editor for Building Church Leaders<\/em> and a mentor to a second grader, serves as the president of Kids Hope USA<\/a>, a national non-profit organization that partners local churches with elementary schools to provide mentors for at-risk students. He also chairs the advisory board for a nearby college and served ten years in leadership for a local church. David is the author of Lessons Kids Need to Learn<\/a> (Zondervan, 2012) and Words Kids Need to Hear<\/a> (Zondervan, 2008). He lives in Grand Haven, MI, with his wife Becky. His son Scott and daughter Erin attend Valparaiso University.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Too many strategies for building a great team require books, consultants, or conferences. Instead of all the time, talk, and travel required by these traditional (and expensive) avenues, consider a new approach—just do something. The following list of 15 relatively simple ideas requires little effort to initiate and even less effort to explain. 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